Electrical welding machine



Feb. l0. 1925.

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ELECTRCAL E.

Application and september 15, ieee. snai ne. scares.

To au whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERTIs C. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Warren, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrical Welding Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in electric welding machines, and in general the object of. the invention is to provide an in electric welding operations.

electric welding machine in which a set of welding dies are supported in an inclined plane lto permit the work to be easily placed in position and removed and also readily ohserved by the operator and the operating parts made conveniently accessible; in which a transformer is supported and balanced in an inclined plane at right angles to the welding dies out of the way or remotely from the flash and scattering steel particles and the dropping scale; in which one clamping die is carried on a tilted or inclined sli e supported to roll on one edge upon roller bearings to provide a very'sensitiveu'psetting device; in which suitable adjustments may be made and the welding dies set for various sizes of stock to be welded; in which one slide for a work-holding die is suitably supported to permit convenient adjustments to be made to align the dies and pieces of work variably in any desired direction; in which the1 dies are arranged to permit clamping of large pieces ofstock in one die and small pieces of stock in the other die without machining or shimming the dies; in which the bed plate of the machine is reinforced with heavy tie rods to prevent springing of the plate and throwing of the work out of alignment; and in which the slides are faced with hardened steel plates to overcome wear and to maintain proper alignment under the destructive action of fine molten particles thrown ofi' and dropped In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective view on a reduced scale of my l improved electric butt welding machine.

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the upper part of the machine on line 2 2 of Fig. 5, showing the clamping or welding dies carried by themovable slide.

Fig. 3 is a vertical vsection longitudiiutllyv through a part of the machine of line 3 3 of Fig. 5.

y Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section of the machine on line'4- 4 ofFig. 5.

Fig. 5 is a face view oi the inclined top portion of the machine on line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the top portion of the machine on line "o-- of Figs. 'i' and 8 are vertcal'sections of the machine on lines 7 7 and 8 8 respectively of Fig. 5.

Fig. 9 is a top view of the machine with many of the operating parts removed to more clearly show means for adjusting one of the slides and parte carried thereon relatively to the other slide.

Fig. 10 is an enlarged cross sectional view of .the roller hearing arrangement for the movable slide, and Fig. ll is aperspective view of the roller hearing device itself, lout broken away at its middle and oreshortcned.

Fig. 12 is an enlarged horizontal section and top view of a part of the movable slide and one of the clamping and welding dies thereon and the backing and adjusting devices fo-r said die. i

vThe machine delineated in the drawings comprises a hollow upright base 2 having an open upper end upon which a heavy ced plate 3 is secured at an inclination of approximately forty-tive degrees relatively to the vertical front wall of the machine. Bed plate 3 is open lengthwise at its middle and formed with parallel ribs 4 4 at its longitudinal border edges to provide guiding channels or seats -for two rabbeted slides 5 and 6, respectively. These slides are held in place by hardened steel plates 7 7, and slide 5 at the right is freely reciprocable in welding operations, wheieas slide 6 at the` left is adapted to be clamped in-a lstationary position upon bed plate 3. However slide 6 may also be moved longitudinally in the channeled seats, but merely for purposes of adjustment. `A stationary slide 6 is electrically insulated from bed plate 3 by suitable sheets or linings of electrical insulating material 8 laid within the channeled seats in the bed plate, whereas.v the rabbeted portions or reciprocable slide 5 are faced with hardened steel plates 9 which contact with and the reciprocable upsetting slide 5 is snpported to roll in an inclined up-right position upon a series of hardened steel rollers 11 which are all connected together and journaled -in an elongatedmetal frame 12 to move or roll in unison upon a hardened steel strip 10 removably affixed to rib 4 within the lower channel or seat in bed plate 3, see Figs. 10 and 11.

In practising what is known as the flash welding. method with a butt welding machine, the operating parts are subjected to great wear due to the tine particlesof molten metal thrown ofi' from the are at the place of union. That is to say, the liberated fine particles of molten metal cool oli' and become very hard, and wherever they lodge in the moving parts of the machines they soon grind and cut the bearing surfaces and throw the work out of alignment. This is objectionable as the accuracy of the niachine depends largely on the true alignment of the upsetting slides, and any loose play Acaused by Vwear is also objectionable because as the weld is upset the upsetting slide has a'tendency to raise up, which if permitted,

fractures the weld just at the critical mo-l ment. I therefore`I face all'the sliding part-s with hardened and ground plates 9 and l() having a greater hardness than the fine particles of metal thrown off in welding operations so that said particles will have no eifect on the slides and the slides will last indefinitely. The pin and bushings in the clamping levers and links are also prei'- erably made of similar hardened steel.

In making -a'flash weld, it is desirable to i maintain a constant arc between the parts and to accomplish this result the upsetting slide must travel ata very steady rateof speed. If the slide binds or Works hard in any way it is diiiicult to gett-he steady movement andl arc desired, but by employing roller bearings 11 for the lower edge of the inclined slide the said slide may he reciprocated very freely and controlled veryv sensitively. v Y

. Provision is also made in this machine for adjusting the slides and also the dies 1ela' tively to each Iother to permit the work to4 be properly placed and aligned,l thereby effeotinga considerable saving in expense in making the dies which otherwise would `have to be machined very accurately; also the dies `would wear out ,of true and require remachining. '-y

Thus, separate sets of welding dies 14-14 and 15-15, respectively, are used to hold `the separate pieces of work inabutting relation, and alignment of the lseparate pieces of work is readily accomplished by mounting one set of clamping or welding dies v141-14 and their voperating parts upon an independent table 16 which is adapted to 7 to 9,-inclusive, table 16 is provided with anumber of hardened steel bushings 17 op posite hardened steel plates 18 fixed within the top of slide 6, and a set screw 19 extends.

through each bushing and rests upon a plate 18. As shown four such set-screws 1S) are used at or near the four corners of the: rectangularvslide to enable the table to be raised or lowered relatively to the slide, either uniformly at all the four bearing points or varial'ily to place the table in a tilted position or in a different inclined planethan the slide either longitudinally or transversely.

Table 16 may be adjustabiy shifted and fixed upon slide 6 by a second set of set screws 2O which extend through edge portions Of table 16 and engage separa-te stud bolts 21 projecting upwardly from the slide. Stud bolts 21 pass tlnfough slots or-elongated openings 22 in the table, and rigid clamping of tablev 16 upon slide 6 el'ected by washers and nuts 23. VOther set screws 2i extending through a cross rib 25 at the outer end of slide 6 also aid in effecting adjustments and fixing of the table upon said slidel and the slide itself may be 'moved longitudinally in one direction on lbed plate 3 by a `nut 27 on the screw-threaded end ot a shaft inthe end cross piece28 of bed plate :3, sce Figs. 5 and 6. A movement of the slide in the opposite direc-tion may be eifected by set screws -29 which extend `through cross piece 28 andvbear against hardened inset plates 30 within the end of the-slide.

The copper lclamping and welding dies 1li-14 carried by table 16 are made in any desired lshape or form conforming to. or'

constructed to grip one of the pieces to be welded. Thus, die or block 14, hereinafter designated as the lower `die of'A this set, is clamped by a plate 3l tojone terminal of a solid copperl secondary 32 of anelectric vtransformer 33 whichk is supported in an inclinedposition within hollow `base and this terminal 1s secured by a cross bolt 34 to an angular projection 35 cast integral with table 16 at its lower right hand cornei" butit sho'uld be understood that table 16 two parallel secondaries 32 and 32', respectively, placed side by side around the primary winding and the uppbr block or die 14 is secured to one terminal of the second secondary 32', and this upper die is supported for vertical movement upon table 16 hy means of a cross slide 36 ope ating in a channeled vguide way 37 at the upper right hand corner of table 16. An arm 38 extends rearwardly from table 16 and has a split clamping end 39 adapted to hold a screwthreaded adjusting sleeve 40 wherewith the movement of upper die 14 ma be regulated. Thus cross slide 36 to which the tertix minal of the second secondary 32 is bolted carries a pivoted lever 41 having a short crank arm 42 which is connected by a. to gle link 43 to a swivel part 44 -witlhin ac justing sleeve 40. By pressing the lever rearwardly the link is buckled and upper d ie '14 moves apart from lower die 14, and in throwing the lever forwardly 'the link straightens and brings the dies together and clamps the work therebetween. The upper secondary S2 of the transformer shifts or moves back and forth with die 14; and adjusting-sleeve permits the co-acting dies 114-14 to be placed different distances apart to receive and clamp pieces `of different sizes or shapes. The clamp-ing gripl of the two dies isnot suliicient in itself to resist heavyY upsetting pressures in welding two abutting pieces togetiher, and therefore l provide a heavy adjustable backing screw or stop 45 axially in line with the piece ot work held between the respective clamping faces ot dies 14-14- `Backing screw 45 1s supported in a heavy cross bar 46 which is slidably supported at its opposite ends upon a pair of screw-threaded rods 47-47 extending horizontally above table 16 from projection and cross rib 48 forming integral parts ot the table. Cross har 46 may be lined more` or less remotely from the dies by'nuts 49 engaged with the screw-threaded rods 4'?, and hacking screw 45 has a lock nut 50 to fix its position after any independent adjustment thereof.

New' reverting to the upsetting slide 5 which is mounted to reciprocate freely on rollers 11, this slide carries the second set. ot gripping and welding dies 15-15. These dies are connected separately to the opposite terminals of the. two secondaries 26o-82 of transformer 3?, the terminal of secondary $321 beingbolted to an adjustable head 51 at the lower lei-"t hand corner of slide 5, and the terminal of the upper Secondary 32 being bolted to a cross slide 36 operating `in 'a guide-way 87 at the upper left hand corner of slide 5. Each die 15.45 is detachably secured to a secondary terminal by clamping plates 31, and cross slide 36 is adapted to be operated in the same way as cross slide 36, which carries die 14. That is to say cross slide 36 carries a piroted lever 41 having a short crank 42 which is connected by a toggle link 43 to a swivel part 44 within a screw sleeve 40 held within the split end 39 of an arm 38 forming an integral part of slide 5. By throwing lever 41 to the rear or forward the two dies 15-15 may be separated or brought together to release or clamp the work, and by rotating screw-sleeve 40 the two -dies 15- 15 may he set to receive and grip pieces of workl of different sizes and to regulate the clamping pressure.

The pieces or parts to be weldedltogether may require co-axial alignment or be offset, and to permit either abutting relationship to take place the head 51, as well'as cross slide 36', is mounted in an adjustable position upon slidev 5, see Figs. 2 and 12. Thus. slide 5 is provided with a rib or `flange having a guideway at one side thereof for head 51, and an upright lug 53 at the corner of table 5 is adapted to receive a screw 54 having an annular collar 55 in backinv engagement and thrust position oppositeiead 51, see Fig. 12. A set screw 56 in one side of head 51 extends into an annular groove 57 at the inner end of screw 54 to provide a swiveled connection, whereby when screw 54 is rotated to move outwardly the head and die 15 will begcaused to move in the same direction. A screw plug 58 may be entered in lug 53 to lock adjusting screw' 54 when tlhe parts are all set in a stationary position. When the. pieces to be welded are properly clamped in place and'welding is to proceed, the upsetting slide 5 adapted to he reciprocated by means of a lever 60 pivotally mounted upon a bracket 61 bolted to bed plate 3 at one end of the machine. liever 60 has a short crank arm 61" which is pivotally connected a single or double toggle link 62 with the outer end of a screwthreaded bolt 63 extending through a centrally located boss 64 at the outer end of slide 5, and nuts 65 on this bolt engage said boss and slide and its set of dies he placed at av greater or less from stationary slide 6 dies 14---14e Slide 5 is also h a central leaching screw or 45 for the piece of work s M, r L, nele; 1n dies 15-15, and this screw 4a supported on ino-Vahle slide 5 in the sante vm,7 asscrew 45 is supported on stativ slide 6. that a cross bar 46 is sli supported upon a rods 4?" thor-'1s slide 5, see A Bedplate 3 e. l hoth c*lides and 6 are set at an angle ot fortvve decrees to the levers 41-'41 within convenient reach of the operator, and the work itself is hroaghtinfo plainer view aud made more accessible. Further-nuire, the transformer mar also inclined' and projectedrearwardly 'into a rear compartment 2 in hollow 2 and thus placed more remotely Y .ir of screw-threaded ntall'y above and to in a rotectedposition away from the dies show a coiled spring 67 connected by a flexiblecord'or tape to a yoke 68 attached to secondary 32', see Fig. 4. Both second-aries maybe counterpoised in this way or in a similar manner. Bed plate 3 is also preferably re-enforced w th heavy tie rods 69- extending longitudinally thereofl to prevent the plate from springing and throwing of the Work out of alignment when aA heavy upsetting pressure is applied. Where heavy pressures are required I may use compressed air to operate slide'. and thevclamping dies. Inasmuch as both of the die operatinglevers 41"-41 and their respective support ng' and operating connections are substantially identica-l, Fig. 2 is al correct showing of both and a duplicate showing'in detail is omitted from the drawings. One mode of attaching the respective termnals of the. transformer secondaries is also delineated in Fig. 2, and these secondaries are usually heavy loop shaped bands of copper having two terminals rabbeted or grooved at their upperends to receive wedge-shaped-weldiug dies which are removably clamped thereto'by beveled' clamping plates -31 and 3l as herein described.

What I regard as my invention or dv'scovery and desire to claim, is: Y v

1. An electric welding machine., comprising a hollow stationary base having a ver--' tically-inclined top, -@welding dies movable horizontally on said top and ain electr'cl transformer' connected to 'said dies and supported in a vertically-inclinedand stationary position within said base, said dies be:

ing located at the upper end and front of said transformer.

2. An electrlc weld ng machine, comprising a set of welding dies mounted in a ver- Y tcally-inclined position,` and an electric transformer having a secondaryextending upwardly at an inclination and electrically `connected to said dies. 1

3. An electr`c- .welding machine, comprising'separate sets of welding'dies mounted in a vertically-inclinedposition, and a single electric transformer having` a .plural number of secondaries electrically connected with said dies. i

v4f. An electricwelding machine, comprising a. bed plate and aset of Welding dies supported to operate thereon in an inclined plane, and an electric transformer mounted at an inclination beneath said hed plate rearwardly of said dies and electrfcally connected to said dies.

v5. `An electric welding machine, comprising a set of welding dies, andan electric transformer having a movable secondary electrically connected to said dies and pro-.

connected with sa'd dies,7and afcounter-balancing device connected with the lower end of said secondary.

' 7 An electric welding machine, comprising a hollow base having an inclined bedplate at its top,` a set of welding dies and operating devices therefor mounted. upon said-bed plate and an elect-rrI transformer within said hollow base electrically connectedwith said dies.

f 8.\An electric welding machine, comprising a hollow upright base having a; vertically inclined top and a set of verticallyinclined Welding vdies mounted upon said top, andan electrictransformer 'electrically connected with. said dies and supported at an inclination within saidhollow base.

9. An electric welding machine, comprising a base having an inclined bed plate at its top, slides mounted upon said bed plate, and a separate set of welding dies and operating devices for said said slides. l A

- 10. An electric welding machine, comprising a base having an inclined top, separatev slides mounted upon said top, an adjustable dies mounted upon Inn tablemounted Vupon one of said sldes, a set l of welding dies and operating devices there-` for mounted upon said table, and a. second set of welding. dies and operating devices .therefor mounted upon the other slide.

11. An electric Welding machine, comprising an upright base having an incl'ned top, a p'air of slides mounted upon said top, means adapted to reciprocate one of said slides, adjusting devices adapted to x the i other slide in a redetermined stationary -position, a table a justablymounted upon said last named sl'de, separate sets ofY welding dies having operating devices mounted upon said 'tableand reciproca-ble slide', and an electric transformer electrically7 connected with said dies. Y

12. An electricwelding machine, comprising a bed late having longitudnal guideways, a pair of slides movabl'y seated within said guideways, means adaptedto reciprocate"one"of"sa'id"s`lides in its guide way, means adapted to adjustably fix the'postion of the other slide in 'ts gl-iide-way, a Atable superposed u onv said last named slide, means l adapte tilted and shifted positions upon its.- slide,

`a set of welding dles operatively mounted to` Ix. said table in various Vle upon the reciprocable slide, and an electric tiransformer electrically connected to said les.

13. An electric weldingr machine, comprising a reciprocuble slide and un adjustable shde, a set ot' welding dies operatively mounted upon said .reeiprocable slide. a table superposed upon said adjustable slide having a secondset of Welding dies operatively mounted thereon opposite said first set of dies, and adjustable devices and clamping means adapted to permit said tabk and its dies to be shifted and fixed at different angles upon said adjustable slide relatively to the welding dies upon said reciprocable slide.

14. An electric welding machine, comprising separate sets of welding dies, and a table carrying one set of dies having set. screws adapted to raise and lower and tilt .the table and its dies relatively to the other set of dies.

15. An electric welding machine, comprising a reciprocable slide and an adjustable slide, separate sets of welding dies mounted opposite one another upon said e slides, a slotted table mounted upon said adjustable slide, adjusting screws adapted t0 tilt and shift said table to diiierent angular positions upon the adjustable slide, and clamping bolts adapted to fixcsaid table in a stationary adjusted position ,relatively to said reciprocable slide.

lti. An electric Weldin machine, comprising a reciprocable slidia and an adjustable slide, an adjustable table superposed upon said adjustable slide, separate sets of weiding dies mounted oppositely u on said table and reciprocable slide, and a justable backing stops mounted upon said table and reciprocabie slide for the work .clamped Within said dies.

l". ,en electric Welding machine, conirising set of Welding dies, and a support said dies, having a pair of parallel crew-threaded rods extending therefrorii' i: a ere-ss bar adjuetahly suppcrt-ed upon s reds having an adjustable step and ha screw for the werk Witt i diesn -"2 in electric Welding mac e, ccmlongitndinally-ch f ed had date, pair etw slides mounted ap-on said separate et Welding dies meente-d upon said slides, at enel ci' said hed plate adapted te reciprocate eine said siides, and a set of screw-threaded. tlrrust and pull members the apposite lend of said bed plat-e adapted to adjust and tl other slide a stationary position said plate relatively to said reciprecable slide.

l; electric Welding machine, comprising separate sets of welding dies opposite-ly related te held separate pieces of werk ahuttineo relatien, one set el dies having 'e e n v said guide-wan.

a supporting plate provided with removable bushin and set screws within said bushings a a `ted to support said late and dies adjustab y in respect to the ot er set of dies to permit the separate pieces of work to be aligned coaxially or variably related.

2O. An electric welding machine, coml prising a pair of co-acting welding dies, and

operating means for one die and a movable support for the other die having set screws to adjust the dies relatively to one another: to permit work of different sizes to be clamped between the dies and steel rest plates for said screws.

21. An electric welding machine, comprising separate sets of dies situated opp;- sitely, each set having one die mem r thereof provided with an operating device, and one set of dies having aY slidable die member adjustably mounted opposite its operating companion member tor permit work of different sizes to be clamped therein in abutting relation to the work in the othei set of dies and an adjusting screw for said slidable die member. y

22. A11 electric welding machine, comprising separate sets of weldin dies, each set of dies having a movable Edie member and an o erating device therefor provided with an a justable screw connection adapten to vary the clamping engagement with each piece of work, and one die having a swiveled screw adjusting connection adapted to permit adjustment thereof in respect to its movable companion die.

23. An electric welding machine, comprising a set of opposed welding dies adapted to clamp a piece of work, one o1 said dies having a supporting slide, a lever and toggle link adapted to operate said slide to upset the Worin-and a swivel and screw cennection for said link and slide adapted to adjustaby tix the clamping position of one die relatively to the opposite die.

24. .ein electric welding machine, comprising a transformer terminal and a movable support therefor, a welding die atlixed to said terminal, and an adjusting screw in svriveled and thrust connection with said movable. support.

Q5. n electric Welding machine, comhad plate havin a guide-way '.areened steel p ates, and a recipree ble slide having a set of welding dies mounted er i" provided with hardened steel plates at its seating places within hn eledtric welding machine, comprising a bed plate having a longitudinal guide-Way at ene end faced with hardened steel plates and slide therein faced with hardened steel plates where seated within said guide-way, said bed plate also having a guide Way its opposite end faced with electrical material and seating a Vsecond slide, and said respective slides ha,v

ing a longitudinal guide-way faced with hardened steel plates, an inclined Vslide having hardened bearing plates seated Within said guide-way, a series of connected rollers I within said guide-Way supporting the l0 weight of said inclined slide, and a set of welding yelectrodes mounted upon said slide. In testimony whereof I afx my signature hereto this -4th day ofSeptember, 1923.`

ALBERTIS C. TAYLOR. l 

